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mBioHoney-feeding social bees, including honey bees, bumble bees, and stingless bees, possess distinctive gut bacterial communities that provide benefits to hosts, such as defense against pathogens and parasites.
Jo-anne C. Holley +4 more
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Using honey in wound care [PDF]
, 2006 Honey is primarily a herbal product with some modifications that are made by the bees that process the nectar or sap collected from the plants to store as honey. The types of phytochemicals present in a honey depend on the plant source of the honey.
Molan, Peter C., P. C. Molan
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, 2020 International audienceNavigation by honey bees refers to the cognitive and behavioral mechanisms bees of the genus Apis use to move between a location and one or multiple goals.
Shackelford, Todd +8 more
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A note on the use of honey-bees as pollinating agents in cages
, 1956 This note describes equipment which makes it possible to use a queen-right colony of honey-bees to pollinate small numbers of plants without contamination from unwanted pollen and without abnormal loss of bees.
Haigh, J. C., Butler, C. G.
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Julius-Kühn-Archiv, 2012 Background: In the European Union the placing of pesticides on the market requires as a prerequisite that a risk assessment demonstrates low risks to human health and the environment, among which includes pollinators.
Miles, Mark J., Alix, Anne
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A Spatial Look at Negative Externalities in Agricultural Landscapes: Seedless Mandarins and Honey Bee Pollination in California [PDF]
When honey bees transport pollen across citrus orchards they can increase the number of seeds in varieties that remain seedless otherwise. An increase in seeds diminishes the market value of the fruit creating an externality between seedless growers and ...
de Ribes, Antoine Champetier
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Differential Gene Expression and Protein Abundance Evince Ontogenetic Bias toward Castes in a Primitively Eusocial Wasp [PDF]
, 2010 Polistes paper wasps are models for understanding conditions that may have characterized the origin of worker and queen castes and, therefore, the origin of paper wasp sociality.
Hunt, James H +17 more
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Evolutionary ApplicationsThe Africanized honey bee, a hybrid of Apis mellifera scutellata from Africa with European subspecies, has been considered an invasive species and a problem for beekeeping.
María de Jesús Aguilar‐Aguilar +6 more
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The effect of pathogens on honeybee learning and foraging behaviour [PDF]
The European honeybee, Apis mellifera, is important economically not just for honey production but also as a pollinator. Bee pollinated plants contribute towards one third of the food eaten worldwide.
Wright, Emma, (Researcher in life sciences)
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